Archives for 2006

Sanity was evident in the U.S. Senate this afternoon, when a motion failed to achieve the required 60 votes necessary to call for a “yay” or “nay” vote on the same-sex marriage amendment. The vote was 49-48, but it doesn’t matter. This stupid initiative is done for this year, anyway. Now, these guys can get back to work, concerning themselves with issues that are truly crucial to the country’s future—if they only could…

Today, our very busy U.S. Senate, which obviously has many very important issues to consider, will consider the frivolous notion of a constitutional amendment with the intent to prohibit same-sex marriage. This is the same senate that recently attempted to give away a piece of our great country by passing their version of an immigration bill whose only benefit to anyone appears to be votes for incumbents, presumably in gratitude for legalizing an estimated twelve million border-hopping aliens and giving them the right to vote. However, unlike the immigration bill, which concerns a consequential issue, the stupid issue of a constitutional ban on homosexual marriage under the thinly veiled guise of “defining marriage” doesn’t deserve the senate’s time. This is an obvious attempt by the senate and the administration to pander to their Ãœberchristian fundamentalist constituency, in what appears to be a desperate effort to salvage the endangered 2006 mid-term election. This Turkey objects to wasting the public time and money on this nonsense.

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